Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-11-04
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

The barn of Matthew Bicket in
s. Baifalo Twp, Armstrong Co., was
DESTROYED by fire one night lately.
He bad only tine to get out his horses.
All his crops and farming utensils
were lost. Loss $4,000. No insur-
ance.
"A dispatch from Sharon dated
the 2Sth ult, said: Fred Smith, al
employe of the Bethel Coal company,
was fatally shot last evening while
out hunting with friend They had
stopped to rest and had placed their
guns against log when their dogs,
in play, struck the breech of Smiths
shot gun. 1t fell and was discharged.
the load entering Smiths left side.
He was carried home by bis friend,
but capnot live.
Two men in Clarion Co have
lately been gored to death by bulls
Joseph Sprague, of West Mid
dIesex, Pc, left home one morning
about a year ago to go duck hunting
He returned last week and found his
wife married again and his children
being cared for by stove moulder
named Clifton He departed and
left them all in their happiness.
"A dispatch from New Castle
dated the 29th stated that Burwell
Fox, a well known character of that
county had been arrested near Grant
City, on charge of horse stealing.
The young man was married in Can
onsburg, Washington Co few days
ago, and is said to have hired a rig
from Col. McClay in that town and
sold it in Pittsburg to pay the ex-
penses of wedding trip.
Lawrence County's apple crop
has been regarded as almost E. failure,
yet leading New Castle shipper
says that the shipments from that
point will aggregate from $4,000 to
10000 barrels, mostly Northern
Spies, Baldwins, Rambos, Russets,
etc. The price paid by dealers is
about $3.50 per barrel
Edgar Huidekoper. Of Meadville,
has sold two head of Holstein cattle
to President Manuel L. BarilIas, of
the Republic of Guatemala. After a
sea voyage of twelve days they will
be driven q seven days journey to
their destination, so the Journal
says.
Alexander Smith, Of Lincoln
vile, Crawford county, is well sup
piled with lightning rods A couple
of agents for these electrical conduc-
tors called at Alexander's farm house
and wanted to put up rods on his
house merely as an advertisement,
agreeing to charge but $ll for them.
Mr. Smith was agreeable, and signed
permit which he supposed was to
that effect. 1t proved to be con-
tract to pay the enterprising agents
| IS cents a foot for the rod, the same
to be put in curcuit form-and they
wound enough to amount to $27e.
just at present, Mr. Smith is not
suffering 80 much from the want of
lightning rods as from the want of a
newspaper on his premises Frank
lin Neacs.
John Walter, g coal miner, bad
his leg broken in O niue above Free
port last week, and Albert Shearer, u
trackman on the West Penn fell from
gravel train, near that town and
and was badly hurt
Bucks County has. or rather had.
truly patriotic citizen. Thomas
jerks Petit, farmer and q married
man, took a notion that he was tired
of living, and conc uded to hang him
self. He happened to remember that
he hadn't paid his county tax, how
ever. aad putofi the suicide until he
could GO into Doylestown and square
up. Then he drove home, took a
pair of lines, passed them around his
neck, tied the ends 10 limb of tree,
and swung off contented. There are
some citizens who would see them
selves hanged before they'd pay their
taxes, but MIR jerks is not of that
stripe.
"A man in Kittanniug, Pa, has
an orange tree Is years old and about
six feet high From it be has picked
about go full sized oranges this year.
AS Westmorelaud county lad
I was on lis way to school on Friday
last, young girl thre W splinter.
some fifteen inches in length at him.
It struck him sdewise in the eye, cut
ting the top of his eyebill completely
of and letting out the aqueous fluid.
The stroke was so clean that neither
of the eyelds were in the least abra.
ded. The injured eye will probably
have to be taken out.